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Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J

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Diddy certainly gives your mind and imagination a run for it's money with this piece. He shows simply that there are many facets to each of our personalities through his laugh out loud jokes, mindfully crafted scripts and stories and enticing poetry. If you enjoy a sarcastic, dry, sometimes offensive sense of humor as much as I do, you will love this book. It is an inside look in to the creative, ever-spinning mind of a talented man in his own right.

I LOVE THIS BOOK!

BELOW ARE SOME REVIEWS I'VE FOUND ONLINE THAT ARE BETTER THAN WHAT I COULD SAY...

July 17, 2010 Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J ranked number 38 on AMAZON'S BESTSELLER HUMOR LIST.

-Amazon.com's Author Achievement

Amazon A-list Award Achieving Author, Mr.J is nominated by Indiepress Inc. as BEST BREAKTRHOUGH AUTHOR 2011.

-Muse Monthly Magazine

Mr.J's new book entitled AMPHIGORY ALMANAC is splendid, superb, and smart.

-Travel Trade Tribune

Mr.J commands the english language with terrific the power of Zeus that resonates from the surface of the page to the deepest crevice of the reader's imagination.

-Word-Nerd World Weekly

AMPHIGORY ALMANAC display's Mr.J's elogence and eloquence are subtle yet celebrated in this peice of paperback perfection.

-Elite English E-zine

Imagine if Mark Twain and Mitch Hedberg had a love-child of literature it would be named Amphigory Almanac.

-Quiet Quip Quarterly

AMPHIGORY ALMANAC's relentlessly razor sharp and remarkably rapid fire humor create the sparks that could set the entire sky on fire with wickedly wonderful wordplay.

-Geek Speak Gazzette

Make sure you have a dental plan before cracking open AMPHIGORY ALMANAC'S covers because it will be jaw dropping.

-Papercut Press Publishing

In the 19th century of fiction there was Lewis Carol, in the 20th century of fiction there was hemmingway, and now as readers embark the 21st century of fiction we fasten our eyes in awe to the newly named sultan of sonnets, the prince of prose, the wizard of wordsmiths: Mr. J.

-Novelist Newbie Network

What Edison was to electricity, what Marconi was to sound, and what terrible sitcoms was to Sherwood Shwartz is equivalent to what Mr.J is to comedic commantary.

-Bookworm Brodcasting Bros.

If boredom was a disease Mr.J's homerun hitting humor book AMPHIGORY ALMANAC would be the cure like insulin of intrigue to the diabetes of dullness.

-Rainy Reality Review

PRESS RELEASE

Outskirts Press, Inc. has published it's highly anticipated release of humor, AMPHIGORY ALMANAC: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J by Brandon Craig Jones.

The author's most recent book to date is a 5.5 x 8.5 paperback in the literary collections and humor category and is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The webpage at [...] was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.

Meet Mr. J encompasses a myriad of assorted amphigories ranging from plays on Ben Franklin, lists of one-liners, short stories, teleplays on 'bromance,' pontificated, postulated, and populated prose preponderantly by parading precipitous, pretentious, pompous, polysyllabic pedantry.

Finally a voice for an unspoken generation speaks with acerbic wit and ear tickling vernacular that rings true. Parenthetically, 236 typos (i.e. errors of grammar, syntax, semantics, linguistics, etc) have been intentionally left, not to exasperate a maladroit writing skill, but to accent how frivolous and moot rules can be in creative writing. It's a "Where's Waldo" of Errors making it interactive for the grammar gurus' scrutiny.

Sometimes the stream of consciousness may seem scatterbrained and unfocused, but this was not done adventitiously. Each word was diligently and rigorously labored over. The steadfast and unwavering pace of self deprecating and self disparaging levity reminds the reader that the mission of the book is to be jocular and jovial at its own faults, follies, and foibles.

Debuting author, Brandon C. Jones, hits the scene with his complete collection of work. Each chapter is autonomous and non-interdependent on the others. It's the kind of treatise that can be read in several different settings without losing momentum. Tone, word choice and style fluctuate, but motifs of a throwback to archetypal Woody Allen's erudite absurdity act as the midwife to the birth of a refreshing style of American literature.

139 pages in length, Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity: Meet Mr. J is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the literary collections and essays category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets.

Additionally, Amphigory Almanac: Hebetudinous Humour, Pedantic Prose, & Linguistic Levity can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at [...]

ISBN: 1432760076

For more information or to contact the author, visit [...]

About the author:

Brandon Jones majored in English and Communications at Old Dominion University. He's performed standup comedy at HA! Comedy Club in NYC. He's written for radio, TV, and the stage. Mr. Jones has also been published in copious periodicals including News Blaze, TCC Times, VA Pilot, Mace and Crown, Daily Comedy, and Punch Line Magazine.

Favorite Quotations EXCERPT FROM PAGES OF THE NEW BOOK: Last Tuesday Mr.J was struck on the skull with his own shovel. Exactly one week later on his deathbed he confesses to his best friend, "I've been lying, cheating, and stealing behind your back." His best friend replies, "I know, that's why last week I borrowed your shovel."

All I knew, when I started reading this, was it's a comedy. What it is, is an interesting collection of shorts (short stories), many of them relating to each other, and many stand alone.

I think the fact that it is hard to define is deliberate. The author has stories in here which show his aptitude with vocabulary (which in itself is rare to find in a modern book), but further along he reverts to text speech (especially in a list of funny one liners). For this reason, I feel this book embraces all types of readers.

But if you love dry wit, and tend to split words (rather than hairs) you will find this collection delightful. Okay, to put it plainly - I was laughing like a maniac for a lot of it. I would call this *intelligent humour*.

A sneak peek at the inside: "She takes my breath away. And when I say she takes my breath away it's because she's inflatable. It's not going to work out with my asthma. She's such an airhead but still a doll. She almost killed herself getting her belly button pierced. It's going to cost a fortune to fix with inflation."

See? waaaaaahahahaaaaa.

This isn't a deep read, you won't sit on the edge of your seat reading it, but if you love to laugh and need a pick me up, this book is highly recommended.

If the Bible were a comedy, this book would be it's equivalent. Amphigory Almanac will become an instantaneous priceless artifact when stumbled upon by any man. The dead sea scrolls have nothing on this compilation of life changing, emotionally packed, mind gripping string of dramatically profound sentences. Amen, and thanks be to Brandon "diddy" Jones for gracing us with his powerful presence through the ink in this masterpiece he has so meticulously created.

Amphigory Almanac is an interesting peice of modern literature. It's a real book by a fake author pretending to be a real author writing a fake book. Confusing, right? It is. But it's also funny and at times even poignant and poetic. It has everything from scripts, to jokes, to short stories, to rap lyrics, to fake reviews, to fake about the author pages, to fake legal disclaimers, and much much more. I love this book and it will never collect dust on the shelf!